Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flynn described to the Pope religious conditions in Russian-occupied Lithuania, Poland, Rumania and Hungary, and explained Stalin's views on Catholics in these countries. Some sort of working agreement between the Vatican and Russia was discussed. Perhaps the details would be left to another intermediary-for instance, Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York...
...House of Lords, five days before Palm Sunday, up rose the Church of England's foremost humanitarian, the Archbishop of York. Said the gentle, 70-year-old Most Reverend and Right Honorable Cyril Forster Garbett: there should be no sensational public trials of "the master war criminals Hitler and Himmler and their gang who have corrupted Germany and ordered these hideous crimes"; as soon as their identity is established "those who catch them should at once put them to death...
...Cried Archbishop Ismael Perdomo: "Criminally sacrilegious...
...last week the neighbors learned differently. Detectives clapped the "clergy" of the Community Mission 'into jail, and with them a lay brother named William J. Hager. The "Archbishop," it developed, was known in ruder circles as "Dutch Willy." Father Appleby had been convicted of rape in 1927. Father Norman was known to the police as Raymond...
...Bronx's Edward J. Flynn, onetime political boss turned diplomat, was busy on a mysterious mission to Moscow. Presumably, he was laying the groundwork for U.S. mediation. By the time Flynn finishes his business in Moscow, New York's diminutive Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, a Vatican favorite and the man most likely to represent the Pope in Kremlin negotiations, will reportedly be waiting for him somewhere in Europe or Africa...